GlaxoSmithKline straight-up lied about teen suicide attempts in a trial that was used to convince regulators that Paxil was safe for kids. In-depth from the BMJ. Good summary from The Atlantic.

The New York Times on basically the same shit from Johnson & Johnson over Risperdal. Jaw-dropping punchline: the profits were worth more than any financial blow-back in fines and law suits.

Fascinating article on how the ability to deceive is being built into AI and robot interactions from Fusion. To the bunkers!

The Whitehouse, yes, President Obama, issues an executive order requiring all government services to use behavioural science nudges ‘to Better Serve the American People’. “Your neighbours believe that we have always been at war with Eastasia…”

The neuroscience of Donald Trump. I SHIT YOU NOT. A Salon piece that should be a warning to everyone not to write neuroscience articles while high on butane.

The head of the world’s biggest mental health science organisation, the NIMH, is leaving to join Google. Will be deleting YouTube videos that mention the DSM.

Wired reports on a new campaign to ban sex robots. It’s the date-that-drags-on robots I want to see the back of.

The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology is finally out. Heterodox Academy has links to the full text.

MyCentralJersey reports on Jason Lunden, an autistic neuroscientist who researches the neuroscience of autism.

There’s a brilliant piece in The Psychologist about Geel in Belgium, where for 700 years boarders with learning disabilities and mental health problems have lived with residents.

Go get your gramophonic digital podcast player and listen to this amazing BBC Radio 4 programme on how the social discussion of dreams has changed through history.

The Atlantic on what Google’s trippy neural network-generated images tell us about the human mind.

Ignore the fact that this is yet another article on mental health that says this particular condition is much more common than you think, and you’ll find an interesting piece on depersonalisation in The Guardian.

Nature has a tribute and article collection in memory of Oliver Sacks.

Architecture’s brief love affair with psychology is overdue a revival. Good piece in The Conversation.

The New York Review of Books has Oliver Sacks’s last piece on Klüver-Bucy syndrome, the temporal lobes and unruly urges.

One of the great debates in neuroscience: are all neurodegenerative diseases caused by prions? Interesting post from Brainblogger.

Vice has an excellent documentary about how skater Paul Alexander was affected by mental illness as he was turning pro.

The US Navy is working on AI that can predict a pirate attacks reports Science News. Apparently it uses Arrrrgh-tificial intelligence. I’m here all week folks.

The New York Times has a good piece on the case for teaching ignorance to help frame our understanding of science.

Yes, Men’s and Women’s Brains Do Function Differently — But The Difference is Small. Interesting piece on The Science of US.

Lots of junk reporting on the Reproducibility Project but these are some of the best we’ve not mentioned so far:
* Neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop gives her take in The Guardian.
* The BPS Research Digest gives a good run-down of the results

Good video interview with philosopher Patricia Churchland on neuroscience for SeriousScience.